Words that rhyme with awaiting

n 1: the act of adding notes [syn: annotation, annotating]

n 1: harassment especially of a tethered animal

n 1: (baseball) the batter's attempt to get on base 2: stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber [syn: batting, batten]

n 1: the act of overcoming or outdoing [syn: beating, whipping] 2: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows [syn: beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking]

n 1: a severe rebuke; "he deserved the berating that the coach gave him" [syn: berating, blowing up]

n 1: formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) 2: indiscriminate slaughter; "a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered"; "ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name"; "the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder"; "a huge prison battue was ordered" [syn: bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, battue]

n 1: use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens [syn: dating, geological dating]

adj 1: showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste; "the discriminating eye of the connoisseur" [ant: indiscriminating, undiscriminating] 2: having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations" [syn: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp]

adj 1: making lively and joyful [syn: elating, exhilarating]

n 1: the act of regarding as equal [syn: equation, equating]

adj 1: having unpredictable ups and downs; "fluctuating prices"

adj 1: discouraging by hindering 2: preventing realization or attainment of a desire [syn: frustrating, frustrative, thwarting]

adj 1: unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice" [syn: grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy] n 1: a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air [syn: grate, grating] 2: a frame of iron bars to hold a fire [syn: grate, grating] 3: optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum [syn: diffraction grating, grating]

n 1: the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring" [syn: coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union]

n 1: a covering of coarse fabric (usually of straw or hemp) 2: mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture [syn: mat, matting]

adj 1: impelling to action; "it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function"- Arthur Pap; "motive pleas"; "motivating arguments" [syn: motivative(a), motive(a), motivating] n 1: the act of motivating; providing incentive [syn: motivation, motivating]

adj 1: having periodic vibrations [syn: oscillatory, oscillating]

n 1: a thin coating of metal deposited on a surface [syn: plating, metal plating] 2: the application of a thin coat of metal (as by electrolysis)

n 1: an appraisal of the value of something; "he set a high valuation on friendship" [syn: evaluation, valuation, rating] 2: act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of [syn: evaluation, rating] 3: standing or position on a scale 4: rank in a military organization [syn: military rank, military rating, paygrade, rating]

n 1: the sport of gliding on skates

n 1: thin layers of rock used for roofing [syn: slate, slating] 2: a severely critical attack; "the reviewers gave his book a sound slating" 3: the act of laying slates for a roof

n 1: needlework consisting of handmade lace made by looping and knotting a single thread on a small shuttle 2: the act or art of making handmade lace [syn: lace making, tatting]

n 1: the act of changing something to bring it up to date (usually by adding something); "criminal records need regular updating"

adj 1: being and remaining ready and available for use; "waiting cars and limousines lined the curb"; "found her mother waiting for them"; "an impressive array of food ready and waiting for the guests"; "military forces ready and waiting" [syn: waiting, ready and waiting(p)] n 1: the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something); "the wait was an ordeal for him" [syn: wait, waiting]

n 1: (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance [syn: weight, weighting]